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Minnesota 4-star visited Cristobal at Oregon, now coming to UM this weekend
New Hope (Minn.) Robbinsdale Cooper Senior High School TE Jaxon Howard will be on Miami’s campus Saturday for Elite Prospect Day.
The reason he’s making the trip down to Coral Gables? “Because even before they were recruiting me Miami was always a place I wanted to look at,” Howard said. “I hit up coach (Mario) Cristobal, coach (Stephen) Field, we set it up and luckily me and my family are ready to do it.”
Howard’s taking the trip with his father as well as DT teammate John Barrow, who hopes to glean some Cane interest. “We’re going to spend a day down there in some warm weather nd chill out a day, go back on Sunday because don’t want to miss school,” Howard said. It’s his first time going to Miami and he says “I just want to see the campus, I want to get a feel for it. One thing I do know: the coaching staff at Oregon and the way coach Cristobal ran things, he brought the energy, everything was juice.
“When I first walked through the door at Oregon, off the elevator (at a July visit), a bunch of coaches were clapping, I know they’ll bring the heat. It was crazy.” Howard says he has no favorites, and he’s already taken double-digit visits to various schools.
Of what he’s looking for in a college program, he says, “One of course is the staff, I know the way I’m treated on visits is not at all how I’ll be treated as a player but you have to trust the staff. And I did notice this year that you can’t completely fall in love with just coaching staffs because in college football everybody is jumping around al the time. So you also have to fall in love with the university, people, the culture.”
Cristobal and Field have done a great job in Howard’s early recruitment. “Coach Cristobal, me and him have been talking for a while since he was at Oregon,” Howard said. “He always kept it real with me, about how recruiting was, how everything is going to be fine and dandy now but when you get on campus it’ll be the real deal, will be crazy. And coach Field, in the past 2-3 weeks we’ve been texting a bunch. He is juiced, ready to go.” Also of note: Howard’s father, Willie Jr., played at Stanford and was drafted by the Vikings. “I don’t think he was recruited at all through high school, then his senior year one of his buddies said come to this Stanford camp. My dad was like I don’t really want to, then he did great at the camp. He ended up getting a scholarship there.”
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